Ashlee Wisdom is a writer, healthcare professional and challenger of the status quo. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Health in Her Hue, a digital platform that connects Black women and women of color to culturally sensitive healthcare providers, health content and community. She’s a champion for health equity and has a passion for taking an equitable approach to healthcare innovation. Most recently, she worked for Junto Health, where she was the program director for the strategic venture group.

In this episode, we dive into her personal journey, what lead her to start Health in Her Hue, her challenges and successes as an entrepreneur, and her experience raising venture capital as a woman of color.

Main Topics

• Ashlee’s origin story of growing up in the Bronx in New York City after immigrating to the United States from the Bahamas and how the inequities she witnessed lit a fire in her to speak up for injustice. (03:13)
• Ashlee’s education background, beginning at Harvard pre-med and how it led to a passion for public health and policy (9:00)
• The origin story of Health in Her Hue (HIHH) (13:13) 
• Providing culturally relevant health content for Black women through online content and social media (19:55)
• How Ashlee developed the downloadable app with little to no funding and no coding experience (26:05)
• The strategy for HIHH’s growth in the B2B space (26:38)
• Ashlee’s grand vision for being the go-to platform for healthcare for women of color (30:55)
• The challenges faced as founders of color/diverse founders when raising funds and how Ashlee developed her venture capital/investor strategy (32:07)
• How HIHH fits into the health equity conversation by building and designing solutions tailored to underserved populations (40:07)
• Black women’s role in healthcare for families and communities (42:22)
• Skills, value and leadership needed to transform the inequitable healthcare system in the United States (44:10)

Episode Links:

https://healthinherhue.com

Connect with Ashlee:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashlee-wisdom-mph-7114a040/

https://www.instagram.com/ashleejwisdom/

https://twitter.com/AshleeWisdom

https://www.ashleewisdom.com

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https://twitter.com/inonhealth

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